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HOH* THE SENAIOR HAS
CHANGED.
Senator Mills is making an energetic cam-
paign for the Bryan democracy. No doubt
about that. And it seems a pity that a
man who has so thoroughly sacrificed his
own convictions at the party's dictum
should receive so little consideration at the
hands of the silverites. His most impetu-
ous oratory seems to thrill them no longer.
Instead of quickening the tlow of perspira-
tion upon the silver men's brows by his
fiory eloquence he freezes the beads of
sweat as they ooze out, and they hang on
the faces of the auditors like icicles. One
does not have to go far to locate the cause
for this. It is found in the depths of uni-
versal human nature. Sincerity is a qual-
ity that is admired alike in friend and foe.
So is courage. This explains why the sil-
verites are swept into enthusiasm by Rea-
gan and chilled to the marrow by Mills,
though both men stand upon the same plat-
form. The senator recently declared: "I
would vote for the free and unlimited coin-
age of pewter rather than help disband the
democratic party." This ought to have been
hot enough for the silverites, but they still
refuse to consider him as a senatorial as-
pirant in the next campaign, and it is be-
cause they have lost faith in him. On Sep-
tember 19, 1893. the senator made a speech
in the United States senate in support of
the Yoorhees bill for the repeal of the pur-
chasing clauses of the Sherman act. in the
course of his remarks he made the follow-
ing pointed observations:
In 1*79 gold became the standard which
measured all values in this country, it is
now the standard—the uniform standard of
value of tlie commercial world. We art-
invited to abandon this standard and go
to a depreciated standard of another metal.
It will be just as fatal as if we went 10
the depredated standard of paper money.
* * *1 denounce now in this country the
attempt to shift and change the standard
of values for the purposA of enabling the
debtor to cheat and defraud his creditor
out of one-half of what ne has promised
him. and in doing so to put the country
upon a variable and shifting standard of
value, by which the people will be plun-
dered continuously from one end of it to
the other. Every contract now in exist-
ence in the I'nited States made
is on the gold standard, am'
lar is mentioned it mean
one as good as gc
A MOVEMENT FOR PEACE IN
POLIUCS.
The nomination of General Palmer-and
General Buckner for president and vice
president will awaken pleasing emotions in
the bosoms of all men who have been long-
ing for the elimination of sectional bitter-
ness from the politics of the country. Mu-
tual commercial interests and social condi-
tions hav^done much to wipe out the ani-
mosities growing out of the civil war. but
politicians on both sides have freely used
the "bloody shirt" as a campaign banner.
Every republican nomination since the
war has been a union soldier of more or
less distinction, and the war spirit has
been vigorously appealed to in order to
marshal the old union veterans under the
republican banner. The democratic party
between McClellan and Palmer has with
one exception nominated civilians, bitt ex-
pediency has caused it to studiously re-
frain from placing on the national ticket,
even for vice president, a citizen of any
southern state. Consequently there is a
splendid national sentiment involved in the :
nomination of Palmer and Buckner. One '
so few thai it was jnfily by accident that
wo could elect i'\cn a constable once or
twice in a decade. The chid' complaint
which my political critics have made
against my acts in public life has been that
1 have been too much of a democratic par-
tisan—too devoted to the interests of my
party. But in no test of partisanship have
1 been a better friend of the democratic
party than I feel I am to-day in joining
with those who would save the party from
the abyss toward which It has thrown
itself. Dear to me is this democracy upon
whose principles I have been reared and
for whose success I have labored in season
and out. Dear to me art- the teachings of
those great democrats. Jefferson, Jackson
and Tilden. who, if alive to-day. would
stand with us for party and public honor.
And because l love my party and my coun-
try I am here to shield them from danger-
ous attack.
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS SAUCE FOR TRE GANDER.
William J. Bryan's Fealty to Party.
Mr. Bryan said:
•'No power in heaven or on earth could make me vote for a can-
didate for office nominated on a platform auvocating a gold
"standard."
Sound money men, do your duty.
The Chilean congress by a vote of 02 to CO
decided that the relatives of Erederieo Er-
razurlz had a right td vote. Errazurlz was
then proclaimed president by the same
vote of 02 to tlO. It seems all his relatives
voted for him.
It is entirely too easy under present laws
for cities and towns to go in debt. The
power to "get hopelessly behind should be
taken away from them.
"We arraign and condemn the populistic
conventions at Chicago and St. Louis for
their co-operation with the republican par-
ty in creating these conditions which are
pleaded in justification of a heavy increase
I of the burdens of the people by a further
resort to protection. We therefore de-
j nottnee protection, and especially free coin-
age of silver, as schemes for the personal
a few at the expense of the
. .. , masses, and oppose the two parties which
was a major general of the union an. 1 the , s(anJ for th(ige schemes ^ ho8tll(> t0 ttle
other a major general of the confederacy.
Both are natives of Kentucky, as were
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Thus to Kentucky belongs the honor of
having furnished the leaders of the war as
well as the leaders of the movement which
is destined to establish a lasting peace be- j
tween tlje sections in national politics.
Strangely enough. Palmer and Buckner
have before been in close contact. At the
battle of Ohickamauga, they faced each
other in conflict, and both displayed their
inborn Kentucky valor. It is therefore ap-
propriate that these two men should be
joined In a movement having for its ob-
ject th
people of the republic, whose food and
shelter, comfort and prosperity are at-
tacked by higher prices and depreciated
money. Jn line, we reaffirm the historic
democratic doctrine of tariff for revenue
only," says the Indianapolis platform.
The Indianapolis platform is the demo-
cratic apostles' doctrine.
llerr Most says that he believes in revo-
lution and not in tiat silver humbuggery.
sine
AMEBIC A N SILVER DOLLARS IN
ENGLAND.
The FJnahclal and Commercial Chronicle
of New York recently made the statement
that American silver dollars are worth only
63 cer.iS ;ii London. The Denver Republican,
to d« troy the foice of the statement,
makes this offer: "The Republican will
pay him (the editor of the Chronicle) 90
cents apiece for a million standard dollars
coined by the United States mint and de-
livered to our a&ent in London at any time
within thirty days from this date, and will
repeat the operation as often as he may
elect." There is no argument for free sil-
ver in the Republican's offer. In the iirst
place, the preposition only proves that the
American silver dollar is sustained by the
existing gold standard, and the fa t that the
Republican can make a profit by such a
transaction is an argument for a continu-
ance of the gold standard. Of course, the
Republican would be willing to pay $900,000
for 1,('00.000 silver dollars In London, for the
reason that It could ship them back to
America for about $2000 and make a profit
o! $9o,000 cn the transaction. The Repub-
lican will not contend, however, that these
dollars would be absorbed by English com-
merce at their par value, and the Repub-
lican also knows that it could not pay ob-
ligations In Englahd with them except at.
heavy discount. If ex-Senator Hill, who
owns the Republican, wants to demonstrate
his faith let him offer to sign a contract
agreeing, in the event of the United States
adopting free coinage, to pay $900,000 in gold
for every million silver dollars delivered to
him in London, and he will get abundant
opportunities to speculate along this line.
The proposition to the editor of the Finan-
cial and Commercial Chronicle only demon-
strates that the gold standard sustains the
•value of our silver money, otherwise the
American silver dollar would not bring as
much as so many Mexican dollars, which
are quoted in London at 53 cents.
IE SAFE COURSE BETWEEN TWO
EXTREMES.
Between the Scylla of repudiation and the
Oharybdis of McKlnleyism the Indianapolis
platform affords a safe and desirable tran-
sit for every voter who Is in quest of good
government. Up to the present time thou-
sands of good citizens have been embar-
rassed because of the extreme political con-
ditions which confronted the country. On
the one side was presented a demand for
robbery by taxation and on the other the
alternative of robbery by repudiation. Be-
tween these two extremes the political pen-
dulum swung with dangerous force. Men
who have clung to democracy because of
the sound principles of government it has
always espoused heretofore have found it
difficult to ally themselves with either
Bryan or McKinley. To vote for Bryan
was to espouse doctrines which Involved
general disaster and to vote for McKinley
was to revivify policies which would inev-
itably widen the breach between the rich
ar.'yl poor and bring on a crisis destructive
alike of commerce and social order. Mc-
Klnleyism is a discredited doctrine in this
country and we want no more of it, and
while the logical result of the Indianapolis
movement will be the election of McKinley
over Bryan the national democrats will be
well equipped to confine McKlnley's victory
merely to a sound money triumph. If he is
a minority president, as he will be doubt-
less, he will be warned that while the ma-
jority of the people favor his sound money
views a majority likewise oppose his pro-
tection theory. The national democrats are
as determined to avert robbery by McKln-
leyism as they are to avert robbery by
Bryanism, and McKinley as well as
Bryan may learn a lesson from the In-
dianapolis movement. A splendid influence
is now at work in the campaign and the
convention wisely took steps to perpetuate
it. It has been an influence frequently
needed in former campaigns, and will
doubtless be needed in the future. A plat-
form which expresses the convictions of a
considerable number of voters, devoid of
all demagogic appeals to class prejudice, is
an anomaly in our politics and furnishes a
1S79
lol-
old dollar or
and 1 will never vote
for anv~law that enables a man to cancel
an obligation to pay 100 cents by paying 57
cents.
Conditions have not materially changed
since then except that the value of silver
has further declined. Mills, however, has
changed radically. Bowing to the decrees
of the Chicago convention, he announces a
renunciation of the honest beliefs and in-
tentions expressed in the senate. In the
light of his recent declarations, the extract
from his speech of 1S93 would read as fol-
lows: "I do not denounce now in this
country the attempt to shift and change
the standard of \*!ues for the purpose of
enabling the debtor to cheat and defraud
his creditor out of one-half of what he has
promised him. and in doing so to put the
country upon a variable and shifting stand-
ard of value, by which the people will be
plundered continuously from one end of it
to the other. * * * I will vote for any
law that enables a man to cancel an obli-
gation to pay 100 cents by paying 53 cents."
Fifty-three cents? Worse than that. Rath-
er than disband the democratic party the
senator says Jie would favor a law enabling
the debtor to pay his obligations in worth-
less pewter. But the senator's sacrifice of
convictions does not even hold the democ-
racy together, hundreds of thousands of
men who see the danger as Mills saw it in
1893 have the patriotism and courage to
disavow all sympathy and allegiance to the
Chicago revolutionists and will adhere to
the principles of honest democracy by vot-
ing for Palmer and Buckner.
MR. SEW ALL IS WILLING TO RE
TIRE.
Ah, there, Mr. Sewall! On the 30th of
July the Chicago nominee for vice presi-
dent was interviewed concerning the story
that he intended to resign in favor of Tom
Watson. lie said: "Any man who for a
moment entertains such an idea is not
worthy of an answer. ' Thus Hon. Arthur
Sewall left the impression that the report
was so utterly baseless and false that any
man who credited it was unworthy of no-
tice. He stated subsequently that he was
on the ticket to stay, and considered Mr.
Watson's pretensions preposterous. Now
read the following;
Chicago, 111.. Sept. 3.—Chairman Jones of
the democratic national committee has
made public a letter to William J. Bryan
trom Arthur Sewall, which leads as fol-
lows:
My Dear Mr. Bryan: In view oi the ac-
tion of the *St. Louis convention to-day 1
can not refrain from giving you my
thoughts on the situation. Aly ads ices are
that you have been nominated as a candi-
date for president, and Mr. Watson for
vice president. 1 also learn through the
press dispatches that you are somewhat
undecided whether you ought to accept or
decline. Now, 1 desire to say to you with
the utmost frankness and good feeling, that
you must not allow any personal leeling
for me to influence you in your action, t
desire you will do just what you believe is
right and best for the success of the
head of our ticket. The principles we are
lighting for are so paramount to any per-
sonal considerations that the latter should
not have any weight or influence whatever
with your action. I can not for a moment
allow myself to be a factor in any action
on your part that would in the slightest
degree hazard an electoral vote for you.
ARTHUR SEWALL.
This letter was written the day on which
Mr. Watson was nominated. After this
eloquent refusal to "for a moment allow
myself to be a factor in any action on
your part that would in the slightest de-
gree hazard an electoral vote for you,"
this Bath statesman proceeds to declare
publicly that no man is worthy of notice
who believes that he is inclined to step
aside. After using on the democrats
of the country his heroic asseverations in
favor of the unbroken Chicago combina-
tion, Mr. Sewall proceeds to use privately
his offer to get out of the way as a means
of satisfying the friends of Tom Watson.
"Several days ago," says the press report
from Chicago headquarters, "Chairman
Jones wrote a letter to Sewall stating that
many democrats throughout the country,
and especially throughout the wrest, were
objecting to fusion with the populists on
the electoral ticket for the reason they did
not wish to be disloyal to Sewall. In re-
ply Sewall forwarded the foregoing copy of
the letter to Bryan." Mr. Sewall forwards
the letter to Chairman Jones and the latter
uses It as a means of satisfying democratic
voters that a fusion with the populists on
the Watson ticket Is al) right. What will
Texas democrats think of this dupllcitous
means of winning votes and offices? Are
they willing to vote for Bryan and Wat.son>
Are they ready to go the whole hog and
to make the ticket a populist document
from start to finish? Have they lost all re-
spect for their own party and sold out to the
populists for a smell at the mess of pottage?
Mr. Sewall stands ready to step down and
out whenever it is considered good policy
to do so. He ami Chairman Jones and the
rest are now afraid that there are some
democrats left who are unwilling to vote for
Mr. Watson, the populist. Assure them
that there are no such democrats to satisfy,
and Mr. Sewall will retire In ten minutes,
lc i* not u matter of democracy or of prin-
General Mabry Is right in his movement
to have the encampment of the state mil-
itia In connection with the state fair. It
honor and credit of the reunited i will afford a better opportunity than any
country. General Buckner has before given j other that can be thought of for the peo-
eloqnent expression to the liberal and con- j pie of the state to see what kind of mili-
ciliatory spirit of tlite south. In 1SS4. when j tiamen they have.
business reverses swept away General j Th. lmilamipoMs^ |)la7(7rm stands by
Grant's fortune, leaving him penniless, pi.eg|l]f,nt rlevelalul, Baylng.
Ueneral Buckner Ins an ly placed n his , T|ie , „al,lotl!im and courajre wlth
hands the sum of $10,000 to provide tor | whk>h p,vsident Cleveland has fulfilled his
his. necessities until he could regain some- : great public trust, the high character of
thing of his losses. Tills graceful act on his administration, its wisdom and energy
the part of General Buckner sent a thrill
in the maintenance of civil order anu\en-
forcement of the laws. Its etuial regard for
the rights of every class and every sec-
tion. its firm and dignified conduct of for-
eign affairs and ifc sturdy persistence in
. ~ , i-i I upholding the credit and honor of the na-
sprang up between General Grant and Gen- j ^ {UV }ully recognized by the democratic
eral Buckner which lasted until the for- ; party and will secure to him a place in
; history beside the leaders of the republic.
We also commend the administration for
through the north and did much to remove
the sectional prejudices aroused by the
w;ar. Beyond this, a warm friendship
mer's death, and General Buckner was one
of the pall-bearers who followed the re-
mains of the union chieftain to the tomb.
Hence, the nomination of Palmer and Buck-
ner is% significant because It will forever
eliminate sectionalism from our politics,
and it will accomplish this in defeat as
thoroughly as It would in victory. This
alone would have made the work of the In-
dianapolis convention important to the
country. The better sentiment of north and
south is opposed to sectionalism, and mu-
tual interests as well as social and politi-
cal tranquility demand its abolishment. It
may render service to some individual fire-
eater who wants office, but is manifestly
prejudicial to our welfare as a nation. Let
the peace spirit of the sound money demo-
crats north and south manifest itself during
the remainder of the campaign and concen-
trate about these two old white-haired vet-
erans and the country will be the ever-
lasting gainer by it.
THE HAPPY TURN OF THE TIDE.
Some of the country banks have com-
plained of their Inability to obtain money
with which to move the cotton crop, and
the demand on the banks of the larger
cities has been very great. While the
trouble has been attributable largely to the j
unsettled political condition of the country >
other causes have contributed to the em- |
barrassment. Cotton began to roil into
market this season from two to three
weeks earlier than usual. Naturally the
annual Influx of capital did not begin in
time to reach all the country towns in
time to meet it. A great deal of money
had been used in moving wheat, large
stores of which waited at the ports for
transportation. Gold was going out until
the last of August, when the tide turned
and within a few days shipments aggregat-
ing almost $18,000,000 began to move our
way. If the importations continue the
present stress in money matters will soon
be greatly relieved. It will not take the
cash of the great spinners long to find the
man with cotton to sell. It will not be
long before the farmer with grain on the
market will meet a customer with cash to
pay for It. The tide has fairly turned our
the great progress made in the reform of
the public service, and we Indorse its ef-
forts to extend the merit system still fur-
ther. We demand that no backward step
be taken, but that the reforms be support-
ed and advanced until the undemocratic
spoils system of appointments shall be
eradicated.
SNAP SHOTS.
"Adrian!" screamed the brakeman on the
Bryan train. "Twenty minutes for wind'."
The trouble with the Kentucky colonel
is that he fancies himself a race horse.
The idea in ancient times was that the
child would be spoiled unless the rod was,
The old-time parent was a scorcher.
Pride goeth before destruction, but the
latter is almost sure to overtake it.
The fool-killer Is afraid of the Chicago
practical joker.
"is the governor in?" inquired a recent
visitor to Austin who had some pressing
business with the executive department.
"No," said the janitor, "lie Is out trying to
get in again."
FIDO VS, INDIVIDUALISM.
Bryan, Tex., Sept. 3.—To The News:
j David Crockett had as one of his mottoes
| "Nobody's Fido." This was at a period
when Old Hickory was worshiped as an
| idol. Crockett had the independence to op-
! pose a pet measure of Jackson's that Croc
kett regarded as infamous, it beat him
| for congress, but he won the approval of
his conscience and expressed no regrets,
Crockett said he didn't wear the collar
with this brand:
My Dog. :
ANDREW JACKSON. :
» •
Crockett was the highest type of indi
viduallsm and the exponent of the dignity
of citizenship. His patriotism is meinorial-
i ized on the musty walls of the Alamo.
! "He was a mighty poor scholar, but did
his own thinking." "As a man thlnketh so
is he." Independent thinking means often
way, and It will be found on examination [ to be isolated, to be misjudged, to be boy
that the happy change was made at about
the usual time of the year. Our beef, grain
and cotton have never failed to attract the
attention and the capital of a world of cus-
tomers and consumers abroad. They have
never failed to bring the gold our way.
Palmer ^nd Buckner are above sectional-
ism and bloody chasms.
"1 have been a townsman all my life,"
says Mr. Gladstone, "but I am a rural man.
one of the country folk, now: and it is a
great enjoyment to be free from the foul
rivers and masses of smoke, and the dark-
ness that overhangs many of our great
towns, and to enjoy the scenery that is
around us, the light and air God has given
us, just the way he gave them. It will
be all the better for this country the more
we can maintain and increase the rural
population of this land."
The Boston Herald says:
The crops of corn. oats, barley, potatoes
and apples In this country last year were
the largest on record, and the present out-
look is that this year's corn crop may be
even greater than last year's: that almost
cot ted. We advocate Independence and in
divklualism. and then turn and rend the
person that dares to practice it. lndepend
ent thought is one of the most hopeful
symptoms of this day. In the ratio of the
capacity of the masses to think soberly and
intelligently will be their capacity for self
government. The substratum of goo*
character is honest purpose and pure mo
five. These rise the highest in action In
the life of tlif educated, thoughtful man
evolving a Gladstone. It Is but an evlden
fact to declare that comparatively few do
the thinking for the great masses. Then it
is important for the masses that the!
leaders have honest purpose ami pure mo-
tives, backed by experience and comp»
tent to grapple with the problem of polltl
eal economy. It was one thing for Alex
ander the Great to conquer the world, but
quite another to hold the conquered nu
tlons in hand and utilize what had cost
the blood of thousands to win. All his con
quests were dissipated like the frost befor
the sun. Cromwell could sweep the En
gllsh monarch from his throne and lead an
abused and justly enraged yeomanry to
overturn the empire, but it soon regained
its seat and pursued the even tenor of
its way. Cromwell had an outraged and
a misgoverned people at his back and a
just cause. There is no parallel In his case
and the present crisis in this country, for
the latter can not make good a similar
grievance. The iconoclast is rarely ever a
MONEY IS ABUNDANT.
Ill T
THE THOIBLE IS I*
IT HE LEASED FROM
VAULTS.
GETTING
1HE
PER CAPITA CIRCULATION,
Report# Show Tlint It Is In-
crease the Value of Silver unit
Benefit Foreigner*.
$450.1483
52.175.998
59,999.805
225.4r»1.358
9r>.217.2'!l
215,331,927
42.32<17."9
31.N40.000
as many potatoes will be produced, and j builder. The destructionlst is seldom ever
that last year's great crop of apples will
be surpassed.
The Tennesseeans are down with a com-
mon complaint. The Memphis Commercial
Appeal thinks that "the Knoxville Sentinel
is right when it says that 'not
taxes, but lower taxes must be the slo-
gan.' We are paying too much for the
kind of government we are getting."
u constructionist. This country is threat-
ened with two deadly isms—Bryanism and
McKlnleyism. The condition Is a Scylla
and a Charybdis. The conservative patriot
will have to steer carefully to pass be-
tween the two. or, to change the figure.
The Natchez (Miss.) Democrat (Bryan
democrat) agrees with the Mobile Register
that Bryan should refuse to accept the
populist nomination. It believes that Bry-
any's "persistency in not pronouncing him-
self openly, candidly, and unequivocally
with reference to his candldfa.cy upon the
populist platform is doing his cause more
harm than good." if Mr. Bryan and his
campaign managers dared do it they would
remove Mr. Sewall from the ticket and
give to the Democrat and Register a he-
roic dose of Watson. The Chicago favorite
considers it safer to run a Bryan and
Sewall game In one state and a Bryan and
Watson game elsewhere. This is a queer
kind of democracy for the old guard to
swallow.
In his eloquent speech before the Indian-
apolis convention, ex-Governor Flower said:
For myself I can say that for over a
half century 1 have been unflinching In my
support of democratic principles, and I do
not propose to give them up now. even if
1 have to bolt my party platform and
ticket in order to maintain those principles.
1 have lived and worked for my party in a
town and county when* democrats were
. , h | these two leaders may be likened to two
nigner , ,„0gU| engines heading for the white house
and colliding on the main trark. It is a
dangerous thing to ride in either train.
Both of these leaders are extremists and
one-idead. If thought could rise above pas-
sion, prejudice and party ism both of these
men would be relegated to private life.
GEO. E. CLOTHIER.
lolort'd Lingerie.
Delicately tinted lingerie is one of the lat-
est Parisian novelties to reach New York.
A prominent Twenty-third street shop is
showing short petticoats of batiste and dim-
ity in almost all the colors of the rainbow.
There is also a violet tinted chemise and
numerous pairs of drawers in faint green,
canary yellow and baby blue. They are all
half smothered in lace frills and trimmed
with very narrow ribbons.
Of course the Parisienne does not buy one
piece of this colored lingerie; she buys it in
sets. And a set consists of not only the reg-
ulation skirt, chemise, nightgown and pair
of draw* rs, but a long and short skirt, all
fluffy with lace frills, a dressing sacque and
a tea gown.
The tea gowns are simply bewitching in
the delicate colors, with their soft jabots of
lace, and are just the thing to form part of
a summer wardrobe, but as for green night
robes and pink drawers, the average Ameri-
can younn woman Is apt to be quite content
to allow them to be monopolized by her Pa-
lisluu ajidtcr.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 4.—To The News: Now
that the people have a false Idea that
there is something out of joint with
the dollars of the country 1 feel it my
duty to set them right, t*o that they will
know how to talk and vote. 1 hope you
won't call on me again soon, but if a new
rop of weeds starts up in your garden
let me know, and I will help you just as
though you were kin to me. I am glad to
know how to help you.
Whoever thought the people all over the
country would attempt to tulk on the com-
plicated financial Issues. Now. to start
with, 1 have no money and am anxious
to make a start. This forces me to tell
you the truth. 1 am not very good, but
I would rather tell the truth for a dollar
than to tell a lie and get 50 cents. 1 want
a system by which first the government
will prosper. Next the millionaires, who
build the railroads, the factories, open up
the ranches, do all kinds of business that
scatters the money among the people, that
makes them prosper and quit politics—as
Grover did.
You can't get a dollar from a man who
has none: so labor with and for a man
who has/it. You can't well steal or law a
man out of his money, so stand In with
the combination: serve him. and he will
vou; he needs von and you need him. The
chief cause of the great crop of financiers
throughout the south and west is infiani-
atorv literature that the postoftices have
been flooded with for the past four or five
years. People have read and read In one
iine until It is like a man sticking to some
old pet lie—he soon believes it is the truth
himself, and is willing to swear to it. _
Now read the following table and you will
see how our finances stand to date, and it
is a great showing. The treasury state-
ment for July 1. 1896. Rives the following
as the amounts in circulation on that date
(not including money in the treasury, which
amounts to $835,006,128):
Gold coin
Silver dollars
Subsidiary silver
Treasury notes (greenbacks)...
Treasury notes, 1890
National bank notes
Gold certificates
Currency certificates
Total $1,509,752,200
Population of the United States July 1,
189(1. estimated at 71.390.00u; total circula-
tion per capita. $21.15.
Total amount of money In the United
States, in treasury and In circulation. $2,-
345.631.328, per capita $32.86.
The per capita of gold coin in circulation
is $6.42; of silver dollars and silver certifi-
cates (which represent coined dollars held
for their redemption), $5.40; of treasury
notes of both kinds. $4.51: of national
bunk notes. Fractions are omitted.
So you see we Have an abundance of
money $32.86 per capita total, and $21.15
among the people.
Now what you l»l fellows have been try-
ing to get at Is how to get the free and
unlimited distribution of dollars 10 to 1.
This is what you are after. First get the
money we have out, then a*k for more.
Our per capita is greater than It has been
for ilrty years.
No sane man with money wants It idle
and locked up when he ran mak»* It earn
interest. Our bank vaults are filled with
cash throughout the entire country. You
need it. but you are bound to get It hon-
estlv. for that Is the great fundamental
principle of our government, so you must
work—If you have nothing to sell—to get
either gold, sliver or paper. Vou can't get
over that proposition unless you are a rob-
ber. and then you will soon be in the peni-
tentiary or killed, and that will scare the
rest into work, and the financial question
will be settled. If you will all be friendly
with these rich fellows, and work and take
an interest In their affairs instead of want-
ing to legislate it from them, keeping them
mad and against you. You can't afford to
make the money of the country mad unless
it belongs to you. We have had free and
unlimited coinage of silver several times
for short periods within Hie past hundred
years. History plainly shows it was then
worth 16 to 1, and generally a little more,
and at any time that it v\as not at a par-
ity one or the other metal quit business,
and it is honest and laical that It should.
Well, this gets the present proposition
duwn to gold or silver for a foundation?
Ai.il it is now seriously far apart. You
can't measure a yard with an lvinch rule,
unless you put It down twice. You can't
have two standards unless they are equal.
Now. the laboring man would be the chief
mourner in case the free coinage of silver
should become a law. For Instance, say
that Will Bryan Is hired to Arthur Sewall
for $25 per month to build canoes under the
free coinage or Mexican dollar law. It is
in realltv only worth $12.50, still It has the
dollar mark on It. Bryan says 1 must liavo
more wages, this will starve me out. Right
here the man who is able to hire has the
• all on you. In fact, he can't quite under-
stand tills depredation business anyway,
and he will put you off for six months to
see how it is Kolng to work, and you
never will get $5o. This applies to every
man of the millions who works for wages.
This is one edge of the sword. Now. you
are forced to take the United States (Mex-
ican) dollar at ."»U cents. Well, will you im-
mediately get two or three to one dollar In
circulation? No. not for twelve years. The
$650,000,0410 in American gold coin imine-
dlatelv ceases to circulate and Is only pur*
chasable at $2 for $1. as in Mexico. Here
our money Is half gone.
When Mexico wunts $HUiu0 she must Issue
$20,<»W in bonds and sell to get It. A Mex-
ican merchant must go into the markets
to buy $H«>0 in gold to pay his merchandise
hill In' Purls, paying- therefor $2000 in silver.
The United Stales government has no in-
dependent power on earth to raise 50 cents
in silver to 1U0 cents. The free silver argu-
ment would not stand for a moment before
a man totally unbiased. Jt is said the
debtor would benefit by paying off his
debts at ;'»U cents on the dollar. Not so.
A rush would be made und the courts
would be flooded with loO-cent. judgments,
and It- would take an army of elerks and
sheriffs to execute papers. Securities would
be exhausted under the hammer, and
women and children would be thrown out
of their homes.
It Is said that Mr. Bryan's platform eon-
templates that pre-existing contracts shall
not he affected by a cheapening of the
money. This the creditor will have no con-
fidence in, for he understands the power
behind It is to get cheap money to pay
honest debts, and then those of your cred-
itors who would be willing to accept your
$2 lor one would prefer an honest dollar.
So it cuts going and coming and nothing
to cut on. _ „
We are now coining about. $30,000,000 of
silver per annum, with the mints running
at more than half their capacity. I am
in favor of coining all the silver whose par-
ity can be maintained. In fact 1 would
not object to the free und unlimited coin-
age of silver at the ratio of r>2 t*> 1. with
the pants pocket amendment; provided,
however, that should silver decline the
ratio incline, but under no circumstances
shall it be used for wagon wheels.
Now listen; Did 1 say it would take
twelve years, with all of our mints run-
ning day und night, to coin $050,000,000 re-
tired gold dollars? And these dollars would
only 50 cents, so it would take twenty-five
years to get as many lou-eent dollars con
1 tuining two for one. A contraction and a
money panic could not be averted with the
United States army. We would actually
have a money famine for years to come-
cheap dollals and none of them. These are
facts, for the world has the silver, and if
our silver were to advance other countries
would immediately ship it In. If we got
hard up we could buy Mexican dollars and
grind them over, if necessary, but that
would be no use—we could just use them
as they are now. Our great northwestern
silver healing regions would take on new
life, if wheat was worth one dollar per
bushel the plow would turn new soil. If
silver started up the pick would turn new-
ore, and with scientific and new devices for
mining it is to-day a surer crop than cot-
ton or wheat, for the drouth does not af-
fect it. Silver for years has been over
producing, is cheap ail over the world, and
will continue. Free silver would ruin all
the wage earners, and they are a great fac-
tor in the prosperity of this country; it
would ruin our government; it would par-
alyze our great system of tariff service
and put an army of clerks at our ports fig-
uring discounts.
Now, would corn, cotton and wheat im-
mediately double in price? If it should
you would only be even with your half
dollar dollar.*. The buyer would take ad-
vantage of the situation and contend for a
hundred cents' worth, to he paid for in 50-
eent dollars; general decline in business
would follow, and like the spoils of war
but few would be benefited by the financial
death of millions.
You say the money is in the hands of
the few. 1 admit we have many very rich
people, but you must investigate before
you speak, for the fallacy Is knocked into
pie. Here is the latest report: Eight mill-
ion ninety-nine thousand five hundred and
nineteen citizens of the I'nited States -a
CIJRR /;NT C( )M MENT.
The Nashville Banner says:
The abuse of the franking privilege of
congressmen by the political managers is
one of the most arrant outrages of the
times. The campaign committees of all the
parties are sending out through the mails
tons of partisan documents under cover of
congressional franks and the government
has to foot the bills. This abuse of the
privileges extended to congressmen will
cost the government, it is estimated, some
millions of dollars. The less money a cam-
paign committee may have the greater the
drain made upon the government's mail
privileges, and no matter how much money
may be raised for campaign purposes the
abuse of the franking privilege goes on.
The congressmen abuse the privilege for
their own personal political ends to an ex-
tremity which is shameful, but this whole-
sale .use of the government's frank by the
national campaign committees is an out-
rage and a disgrace.
* * *
Commenting on McKinley's tariff views,
the Boston Herald says:
After all. presidents do not make tariffs;
if they did, we should have? a different
tariff now. If it is practicable to pass a
new tariff in the next congress the subject
will appeal to the sound judgment of the
republican party generally. It Is evident
that there are not a few of its leading and
influential members w ho are opposed to go-
ing back to what has been known as Mc-
Klnleyism. It is not unlikely that they
will have weight in the party. If they do
not. then the worse for It. The subject
will come up as an Issue in that event; it
is not an issue now.
• • •
Charles E. Warburton, proprietor of the
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, died early
on the morning of September 1. Mr. War-
burton and J. B. Harding established the
Telegraph in 1S64. the latter dying the fol-
lowing year, and for thirty years Mr. War-
burton continued as both the editorial and
business manager of the paper. In 1894 he
relinquished the duties of publisher to his
son. Barclay II. Warburton, who has since
occupied that position. The entire force
connected with the Telegraph were the re-
cipients of numerous favors from the de-
ceased editor and publisher, and many tri-
number amounting to over two-thirds of j butes of respect were tendered to the family
our total vote - ninety-nine out of every by those who had worked for and with Mr.
hundred poor and laboring people have j Warburton. His death is deeply regretted
IT- I by the fru.wnUy of the Quaker
4.875.519 citizens have in savings banks I city, he being, at the close of his active
alcne $1,^10,597,000; 1,809,325 of our peopl
have shares, mostly small, in 0000 building
and loan associations; more than 2,(100,000
of our people have taken out life policies
to guard against poverty in death; frater-
nal orders have 3,7IM),000 members paying
their dues in order to have their loved
ones protected when the silent sod Is
turned: the various industrial companies
have a membership of 6,919,998, with insur-
ance amounting to $810,050,078. .... .. fllVi« n
The above are facts that cover 22.528,844 : possibility ot carrying $(>00,000,000 of silver
of our people, and it does not lYielude the H ,,a Pa,^V ^Ith gold when each coined
rich bank depositor. What an army of <\?»ar would buy almost enough silver for
honest people who have placed their hon- $-• l'.(>i! ^ !?
t dollars in these institutions to guard °^.a. Kreut majority ot financieis, in the
life, the dean of Philadelphia Journalism.
♦ ♦ »
The Washington Post says:
As for a double standard, there is no such
thing. There never has and never can be
a double standard. It Is possible -to agree
upon a ratio that may be maintained for
a lime, but this can only be done by the
! co-operation of the great commercial coun-
'< tries. This country has demonstrated the
against starvation, despair and destitution, i opinion, too, of man> advocates of free
What an army of the most industrious and coinage, Instantly destroy the paiity and
honored, the "truest and most deserving ot' lKl, l!? on a s .V .uj]6 w°tl « f"i
r citizens, to be ruined and defrauded by ; uri1 IS a monetary fad that can not be
king away half the earnings of a life, j changed by act ot congress.
taking away half the earnings of a life, j
when all Is too small a premium for such
frugality. They would scorn with bitter
hatred the government that has nurtured
them. My friends, these matters are de-
serving of the most serious thought. No
man can afford for the sake of office to
sacrifice these people on the altar of ruin.
The odds are always against the poor
man in great disturbances. There are but
few rich people compared with the poor,
ami thev only could stand such a press-
ure and demoralization in business. The
silver barons are the only ones to profit,
and this to the detriment of ninety-nine
out of every hundred of the people of this
country. Wall street would make addition-
al calls for their money. Near half of our
money in gold would go. Silver bullion
would be guarded to the mints, coined and
guarded back to great vaults of twenty
silver lords and the combination turned
on and kept with the hope that it would
rise in value—where it would rust and
grow cheaper.
The finances of the entire civilized busi-
ness world should, like water on the plains
seek its level, making a uniformity, a par-
it v. with all sections bearing honestly in
one common level, and it is doing that as
fast as enlightenment brings forward new
ami modern governments. And will the
greatest government in tlie civilized world
under a pressure of excitement turn back-
ward to Mexico and China? Not so. We
will take advantage of this election and
keep pace with the highest civilised nations
of the world. There is a tide in the affairs
of nations as well as in that of men which,
If taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,
antl of all times in the history of our coun-
try. this is the time for the people to rise
and .protect the honor of our country and
people. Tills looks hard to say to a man
who goes so far as to dream that lie is at
the mint with a corn hcoop shoveling the
sliver baron dollars Into his wagon, but I
tell you, my friends. It Is tithe to gather
yourselves up and see what you are doing.
Now is the time to lay aside your politi-
cal eyeglasses and read and think on both
sides of the question, and do It seriously.
A tourist In Mexico wants dinner and
stops a chile basket on a burro, calls for
$2.50 worth of con carnle, hands the free
silver laborer $1 American. $1.50 of his own
money, lie can't tell what he has, und
must go to some railroad office where they
have tables showing its value, gets back,
and a lot of greasers have stolen his crop.
The greatest complication prevails in
railroad travel. A man hurries into a Mon-
terey ticket office and calls for a ticket to
San Antonio. He hands the agent $10 In
United Statrs silver dollars and $10 in Mex-
ican. The agent at*once lays the Ameri-
can money aside as good and figures out
the discount en his own money -dishonors
and deprecates it in its own home and
often detains the passenger, who has to
lav over for the next tram.
It will not be five years until Mexico
will base her money upon gold. Russia is
taking rapid steps to fall Into line with
the great aggregation of commercial na-
tions on a stable monetary system; and It
Is only a question of time when the entire
civilized world will float a money of one
kind, honored and respected in al^ the vari-
ous avenues of trade, no matter where
found.
But few people think of the serious ef-
fects of free silver coinage as contemplat-
ed. A perfect panic would take place in
the foreclosure of hundreds of thousands
of farm mortgages, and before the law
could be adjusted sorrow and pandemoni-
um would reign In the land. You sen. your
dollars would only be worth 50 cents, and
no man would uccept It for 100 cents, and
no honest man would ask him to do so. >
Weigh the matter from all sides, and T
fall to find its virtue. It shortens the
money and cheapens it; It ruins labor; it
locks up capital; it dishonors us in coun-
tries where we sell und buy; It cuts going
and coming like a two-edge sword. Did I
say a two-edge sword? I had better said
a sausage grinder, with knives cutting each
way and turning In the middle. And there
is only one kind of meat too tough for it,
and that is the silver mine owners, num-
bering about tw-'iity, worth ftoxo,000,000; but
there is a saw mill awaiting them at the
ballot box in November. Why in the mis-
chief are they not satisfied with their 50
cent silver? I would be glud to have It at
any price. The God's truth Is. a man who
positively and surely does not own an old
silver spoon, a silver brick, an old castor or
a Mexican dollar that he wants to sell or
have coined, is absolutely eye-shaded find
about to have wheels in his head. But
keep right on; you will soon starve, and
then we will have $50 per capita.
Now. you want to read this letter six-
teen times to one man. for it Is the truth;
and truth is mighty, and will prevail; the
eternal years of God are hers. And unless
the loo-cent dollar men all die, you won't
stand h ghost of a chance: and if they do,
you will have a 10 to 1 shortage, and won't
have any use for your old cheap money
but to buy mourning for vour starved rela-
tives and import free silver Mexicans and
Chinamen to take their places. But 111 the
interest of my country, my relatives, my
friends, and myself, I must start you right.
And by an honest, pull, for an honest dol-
lar. by an honest ballot, we will be easily
out of reach of the maddened and frenzied
lash of the white-capped waves bedlmmed
by the fast-fading clouds. Already the
sound money tide is fast spreading west-
ward. The free silver bubble Is growing
thinner and weaker. The bright golden
rays of the moon are plainly seen emerg-
ing from behind the silvery clouds, and the
financial honor of the country will be pre-
served. Sincerely yours.
ED ANDERSON,
In and After Texas.
TEXAS NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
Cuero Record: Mr. Bryan continues to
array labor against capital—class against
class. Mr. Bryan, or any other candidate
who follows this line of argument. Is
merely digging his own grave. ThcAs peo-
ple will have no such tomfoolery.
Schulenburg Sticker: The republican par-
ty is exemplified by an elephant, the demo-
cratic party by a jack, the populist party
by a billy goat. Neither of these animals
will mate with either one of the others.
There will be no successful fusion in
Texas.
Houston Age: The country between
Houston and Galveston will one day be
cut up Into small farms and truck patches,
and worth more per acre than it now sells
for per ranch. Then a whole lot of folks
will wish they had taken the Age's advice
to buy while it was cheap.
Laredo News; As has been said a thou-
sand times, Laredo's geographical position
is such that she could easily be made the
depot of supplies for a very large, part of
Mexico. It only needs a little energy and
capital to accomplish it. We have now an
opportunity to take a step In that direc-
tion. Will we do it?
Brenham Press: In cases of persistent
insomnia this plan has succeeded where
many drugs have failed. It Is to adminis-
ter a moderate amount of liquid food be-
fore the patient goes to bed. This diverts
the blood from the brain to the aUUominal
organs and takes away the cerebral excite-
ment that precludes sleep.
Navasota Tablet: The Tablet will ever
stand up for home merchants, home facto-
ries. home schools ami home institutions of
every kind. If everybody else would do
likewise they would inspire the confidence
of the outside world, foster and fncourage
home industry and developvand strengthen
our community Interests generally.
Burnet County Banner: As a man strug-
gles and plans for the advancement and
happiness of his children, so also does ht»
who sees the necessity and comprehends
the blessings ot a good and impartial gov-
ernment unselfishly work for reform. Yet
he is denounced as a crank by those who.
blinded by selfishness, think nut, see not
und care not for mankind.
Cuero Record: Perhaps, after all. the
people of this country have been too ex-
travagant. and pay day coming abruptly
has set them wild over theories to liquidate
in the easiest way. The economical citizen,
who has lived within his income, sees no
reason to change his political convictions,
lie is independent, even though he Is so at
the expense of his less careful neighbor.
Conroe Courier: He had been talking to
St. Peter, ami was sent down to the other
gate, where he was warmly welcomed.
"Why are you here?" asked the fallen
angel who stood guard. i don't know."
he replied. "I never did any one wrong.
I never said an unkind word about a per-
son in my life." Then the angel smiled.
• That's all right," he said, "come in.
You'll find the cage for hypocrites at the
end of the corrider next to the furnace."
Oent revile Reform Press: We are not
a goldbug -the mere Idea of it is abhorrent
to us. We believe from our heart the prin-
ciple is unjust, dishonest and inhuman, and
will onl\ make a nation of poverty, debt
and serfdom to the people who adopt it.
We do not believe In giving any iuecial
money preference over another. But do be-
lieve the people should be given plenty of
money—gold, silver and an irredeemable
paper currency. We are strictly a flatist.
Cuero Star; 'lime has been in this coun-
try when it was considered almost a dis-
grace for a man to announce allegiance to
any other than the democratic party. Now
we* find a good many very good men who
are republicans or populists, and no one
can see but they arc just as useful mem-
bers of the Industrial or social world as
any others. The main question Is now is
he"a good man-Is he a deserving citizen?
Toleration in politics is as necessary as In
religion. The curse of proscription should
be blotted out.
In Dnuly EnrneNt.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
♦'Officer," said the excited little man,
"two fellows have.Just begun to talk pol-
itics In my hotel, and I want you to stop
them before they get to lighting."
' Sure,'' said the policeman. "What makes
you think they will fight?"
"Think they'll fight? 1 know they will.
They are bolters from opposite parties."
| A SCOTTISH CORNER, |
Scotland's Honnle Hrooiu.
Oh, mony, mony fairy sichts
in ither dimes I've seen,
And mony a bonnle flower I've pu'd,
Wl' a' its rich perfume;
But naethtng yet has cheered my heart,
in a' the lands I've been,
like the bonnle draps o' yellow gowd
On Scotland's honnle broom.
On Scotland's bonnle broom,
Auld Scotland's yellow broom,
Hike the bonnie draps o' yellow gowd,
On Scotland's yellow broom.
I mind fu' weel, in days gane bye,
When callants wild we ran,
And pu'd the bonnle gowans
And the scented hawthorn's bloom:
How aft was hushed our merry laugh,
To list the lintle's sang,
'Mang the bonnie draps o' yellow gowd
On Scotland's bonnle broom.
On Scotland's bonnle broom,
Auld Scotland's yellow broom,
Mang the bonnle draps o' yellow gowd
On Scotland's bonnie broom.
But a' my kith and kin,
And my friends o' former days,
Ijike withered leaves hae passed away.
And sleep within the tomb;
And though I'm left my lane,
Yet 1 dearly love to guze
On the bonnle draps o' yellow gowd.
On Scotland's bonnle broom.
On Scotland's bonnle broom,
Auld Scotland's bonnle broom,
On the bonnle draps o' yellow gow4
On Shetland's bonnle broom.
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 166, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 6, 1896, newspaper, September 6, 1896; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth465361/m1/16/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.